The Sun. — London, England, 1818-08-11 00:00:00

• We can as sore our old Co . rrespondent, w h nse h an d- wr iti ng we arc happy in again recog nizing, anal to whom our columns shall he alway. open, that he N Inistaken.--W e took the ac cooot of the Meeting from a Morning Vaper, as au article on account tot the subject. ON EDUCATION. FOR THE SUN. LLETTER I.] Mr, read with some surprize in your Paper of the sth an account of the Meeting of the British and Foreign School Society, to Nellie!) his Royal Highness the Duke of KENT thore4ht proper to introduce his august Spouse as a specimen of our National Institutions. I say I read it ‘vith surprise, not only as a very extraor dinary measure, on the part of his Royal High ness, to bring before an illustrious Foreigner, and tha[ Foreigner his own wife, as an object of Iris first predilection and attachment, a Society esta biished directly in the face, and in contradistioe thin to the National Establishment which placed the Frani)), of his Royal Highness upon the throne of these realists but I felt equal surprise that in your Paper, avowedly supporting t he National E•tablishments in Church and State, not only a. detailed account.of speeches delivered-by some of the most virulent of the spiritual and political pu ritans of the present day should be sent forth to the world—but that they should be sent forth un der the seeming sanction of your approbation, and accompanied with observations calculated to give force and effect to the mischievous Opinions of the speakers. Upon reflectiou, however, I doubt not that this article was paid tor, and ad mitted as an Advertisement of the party,* a prac. tice which prevails universally with these disin terested and pure Reformers, for the more gene ral circulation of their regularly got up scenic re- F . eseurat ions, and the Fonds for which 1 happen to know are drawn from ill, pittance of the poor deceived labourer and mechanic in penny sub seri mions, as well as from those who have a deeper interest in involving this happy Country in all the miseries Nvbich a similar line of conduct, under the VERBS and CaosawaeLs of other times, in duced and perfected to tlie overthrow of the Church and State. It is to me one of the extraordinary and ap palling features of the present times, that the chicanery and quackery by which impostors and pretenders to purity have always been distin guished, are as successfully practised as if the world were unacquainted with their prototypes in past times. The universal practice of the Puri tans, in,order to carry their ultimate objects in the reign Of CHARLES I. %% as to poison !he public mind, and to render the Church Establishment odious and contemptible in the minds of the lower classes. Precisely the saute are the purpose and bent of those reforming Politicians in the present day, who for the greater part have no religious set‘iples to encounter, and who seek out every Institution which, in fact, or by.implicai ion, can be supposed to militate against the Establishment, as the peculiar objects of their patronage anti affect hot. They have not the decency (since they find not the necessity, front the blindness of those who eipo'tse their principles) to chew even equal favour to the National Eslablish went s. They uever grace the Meetings of the National Society and the various Church Societies will, their pre settee—nor honour them with their protection. They will support a Jewish School, or a Maho metan one, were there one at hand to solicit their aid, hot a Society . or School, founded upon the principles of the Established Religion, they re gard with an eye of abhorrence, that might he termed bigotry, had not these liberal Gentlemen monopolized, the term, and limited it exclusively to those who feel attachment to the Institutions of their Fathers in Church or State. That I may not be taxed with vapoming—or of yielding to this spirit of bigotry, which must needs inspire me in defence of our National Institutions--I will shew how far, as a matter of fact and as a point of History, 1 am grounded in the opinions I en tertain, and the apprehensions I experience upon this momentous question. " Though the political and religious Puritans (says Hume) mutually lent assistance to each other, there were 'natty who joined the former, yet declined all connexion with the latter,"— that is your liberal men, who, feeling the affecta tion of superior sanctity inconsistent with their habits and pursuits in life, find hypocrisy in re ligion too arduous a part, and confine their purity to temporal and political questions, which by their predecessors were found in the long run to unite and terminate in the same end. "By declaim ing (continues Mr. Home) agaiOst the supposed encroachments and tyranny of the Prelates, they endeavoured to carry the nation front a hatred of their persons to an opposition against their office, and character; and when men we t e enlisted i n Party, it would not be difficult, they thought, to lead than by degrees into many measures for which they formerly entertained the greatest aver sion. Though the new Sectaries composed not at first the majority of the nation, they were in flamed, as is usual among innovators, with -ex treme zeal for their opinions. Their insurmount able passion, disguised to themselves, as well as to others, under the appearance of holy fervour, was well qualified to make proselytes, and to seize the minds of the ignorant multitude, and one furious Enthusiast was able, by his active in dustry, to surmount the indolent efforts of many sober and reasonable antagonists." These were the arts, and- this the machinery, which the old Puritans, political and spiritual, adopted to under mine the fabric of the Constitution, and asey ay. FECTED IT! Now.. Si r, , the great engine which Mr. Bnouunam . and his few desperate adherents duly appreciate, and by which a State may be secretly and almost imperceptibly undermined, is the education of the great moss of the people, upon principles which tend to render the public Insti tutions of the country contemptible, or at least in different. These are the principles of Mr. LAN.- cas ratt,avowed by himself in t he original Establish ment of his Plan, which, to use his own words, was to prevent education from being subservient to the propagation " of the peculiar tenets of any sect." among which sects are included the Church of England. He holds forth his new system as a mans of fulf►lling his wish, " that names may perish, but truth prosper." He adds, " that - if any particular sect obtained the principal care in a National System Of Education, that part would soon be likely to possess the greatest power ►►ud influence in the State." This is just what the Church of England is, and the purpose for which it was established, and Mr. LANCASTER fairly publishes to the world •the end and object he has in view, namely to overthrow this Church by destroying its ,r►scendancy. He prepared the way, and Lis followers have steadily pursued it, by taxing the Church with bigotry and intoler 7 slice—and by sowing, with the very seeds of edu cation, a hatted or contempt of its Ministers and its Forms. Not satisfied with that tree and unbound ed toleration which is ungratefully employed to seduce and draw off Members from the Establish ment, by new doctrines and incitements to weak enthusias'ic minds, it is necessary, in order to render the operation more effective, to poison the very springs of Education, and to instil into the minds of children, by a mechanical and skil fully applied process, a perfect contempt for the Religion, and by a very easy transition to its natural the Ciril Constitution of the Country. Hence we are sore to find in the Anniversaries of these Lancastrian Institutions (now denominated " British and Foreign Schools," in order to dis guise as much as possible the principles upon which they are founded) men of liberal principles, stout Patriots, and Parliamentary Reformers, who, by their occasional declamatioos against the Go vernment and all its branches in Church and State, beim e the rising generation, keep alive d►e spirit which might otherwise languish under the me chanism of the scheme, and at the same time lay the balm of flattery to the souls of those gifted Ministers, who leave t heir Conventicles to be tickled by the eloquence of a BaouoHaM or a WILSON I You will observe, Sir, the art with which the whole scene was conducted at the late meeting.— A Socinian Preacher, who took the lead among the orators, moved, from the experience of the utility of the hustiti►tion, that " the Clergymen (that is, the Clergymen of the Establishment) and Churchwardens of the District, should be chosen Members of the Committee of MANAGE MENT !" '!'hat is, in plain Englisit, that those who are supposed to have Influence in their re spective parishes should be flattered or cajoled into die measure of sending the children, whom it is their sworn and solemn duty to instruct in the Religion of the State and that of their parents, to this School of Liberality, where no Form of Religion may be taught, in order that these chil dren may not be bigots —or, in other words, ad herents to the Church ! I shall hereafter pursue this subject, with your permission, and endeavour. to prove, beyond the possibility of a cavil or doubt, char the presence of the discomfited Candidate for Westmoreland was not accidental, but that it is connected, intimately connected, with the Grand Scheme, partly developed in the concluding Session of the late Parliament—that by coupling the Clergy, and identifying them as closely as possible with the malrersation and corruption which have oc curred in the instances of many Public Charities, " to carry the nation (to use the words of. Hume) from a hatred of their persons to an opposition against their office and character." Let any look to the proceedings of this Gentleman (especially after having tolerably ascertained his real priuci ples, front his known, thoagh anonymous, publi cations in the Edinburgh Review) at the head of a Committee of the late House of Commons ! I will venture to affil m, that so despotic an autho rity, a n d so little disguised-, exits not at this moment in any Court of Europe, nor over did exist, except in the Committees of Caom% ELI. and his creatures, as that which the undefined, and consequently arbitrary powers, vested in this Pat riot of the New School, displayed before the astonished and indignant individuals who became, against all written law or precedent, amenable to it. But more of this hereafter. I shall merely, for the present, notice an assertion made by Mr. BROUGHAM in the British and Foreign School Society, in which the hundred times refitted charge of the system of National Education under Dr. BELL being copied Irons Mr. LANCASTER, is boldly repeated and coin mented upon. His words are, as reported in your Journal---" IN FACT, it (the National Society) is the child of this Institution," which is contained in a comment upon the Royal Chairman's speech, who had recommended indulgence to the preiu- . dices of Churchmen, who, " with more confined views (very justly said, whether seriously or ironically), supported what were called National Schools, in which instruction was only given to children educated in the Principles of the Church of England."—Those principles, Royal Sir, with all respect be it spoken, without the prevalence of which your Royal Highness would never have been known to Englishmen, nor have bad the op portunity of taking the Chair, from which this bitter taunt upon the Church of your Father was thrown out against it. I will not, enter into- fur ther explanation to prove that his Royal High tiess the Duke of KENT is misinformed upon the nature and constitution of National Schools, when he is represented as stating, that its narrow views are confined to the instruction and educa tion of the Children of Churchmen alone. Had his Royal Highness condescended to bestow but half the attention he has so liberally given to the Institutions out of the pale of the Church, upon those within it, he would have been aware. that no such narrow exclusive views or regulations are to be found upon the records of the National So ciety. With respect to Mr. BROUGHAM'S re-as sertion of a fact so unequivocally and so repeatedly disproved, I will only quote Mr. LANCASTER'S uwii words against his own pretensions : " 1 ought not to close my account without ac knowledging the obligation 1 lie under to Dr. BELL, of the Male Asylum at Madras, who so nobly gave up his time and liberal salary, that he might perfect that Institution, which flourished greatly under his fostering care." "As a confirma tion of the goodness of Dr.BELL's Plan, I have suc ceeded with one nearly similar, in a school attend ed by almost three hundred children." These state ments are to holound in the first Edition of his work. Subsequently, after he had been seized up on, contrary to his .expectation, by the Pol i tico Puritans, for the application of his machinery to their own purposes, thi s a dmi ss i on waS oPtated, We received this morning the Paris Papers of Saturday last. The following are extracts : " PARIS, Auo. B.—Tbe Sieur Gay Lussac is, by a Royal Ordonnance, appointed a Member of the Consulting Committee of the Direction Gene ral of Gunpowder and Saltpetre. " Yesterday the Duke de Richelieu, President of the Council of Ministers, went to the Thuil leries and transacted business with his Majesty. The King afterwards went out, accompanied by ►he Dukes de Grammont, de le Chatre, and d'Avaray. The bookseller I'i-hillier was arrested yes terday morning, and conveyed to the Concier gerie, to undergo the imprisonment to which he has been sentenced in the first case of l'Homme Gris. Madame Chapedelaine, the wife of one of the Officers lately arrested, has instituted a suit for calumny against the authors of Lettres Nor 'wades. Mr. Church, the American Consul at L'Orient, has constructed a large steam vessel, which will be launched in a few days at L'Orient. A wheel of a new construction, for which he has obtained a patent, is fixed in this vessel (which is destined for the navigation of the Garonne), and which gives facilities hi therto unknown for - working against the strongest onrrents ; the safety-valves have been adapted to prevent all accident: " A conflagration took place at. Tarbes in the night of the 15th ult., which destroyed some barns and granaries, and which several persons worthy of credit assert to have been caused by fire fall ing frOm a cloud. The 27th June, the first stone of the new German Lutheran Church was laid at Moscow. The King and the Prince Rpyal of Prussia assist ed iv the ceremony. " The Duke and Duchess of Clarence disem barked at Calais on the 4th inst. from the Royal Sovereign yacht. Their Royal Highnesses set out the next day for Germany. " Letters from Pau of the 30th nit. say, 'since the shock of an earthquake which was felt here on the 19th inst. we have had every day violent storms and torrents of rain. The lightning has struck down in different quarters, but without causing any serious accident.' FIVE PER CENTS Friday 7B 1. c. DEFERRED STOCK of the eed March, 1817, BB f. 10 c. 22d Sept. 1817, • ..se f. lo • 22d March, 1818, ... 84 f. PETERSSURGH, JULY 14.—1 t • has already been stated, that on the arrival of Madame de Krudener in Russia, her suite, consisting of 18 or 20 persons, were sent back beyond the fron tiers. The Emperor, who was then travelling in the southern provinces of his empire, was no sooner informed of this circumstance, than he gave orders to allow all the suite of Madame de Krudener to return back into Russia, and to live there in tranquillity and without molestation. Madame de Icrodener is at present living on her estate in Livonia ; all those who accompanied her have joined her there, with the exceprion of M. Kellner, who went from Memel into Holstein, but who will n't delay to return to her. " MANHEIM, Auo. 2.—The works of the forti fications of Coblentz are now advancing with the and never appeared in any future Edition. If Mr. BROUGUANI be not satisfied with the evidence of Mr. LANCASTER himself, let him take that of big Friend, the late Mr.WH(TRREAD—" To Dr. BELL th e tvorhi are first indebted for one of the most useful disroreries which has ever been submitted ro society."—(Vide Speech on the Poor Laws, Feb. 19, 1807.1 It it be asked why this priority of claim is de nied to Dr. BELL, and forced upon Mr. CANCAS TER, we have only 'to recollect that Dr. BELL is a Minister of the Established Church, and Mr. LANCASTER_ a Dissenter ! York, August G. FENTON WYKE. THEATRICAL REGISTER. Performed Last Night. THEATRE ROYAL, IlAym Ant:LT.—The Travellers Benighted : Robert, Mr. Terry; Margueritte, Mrs. Gibbs. After which, X. Y Z. To *hick was added, The Agreeable Sur prise. THEATRE ROYAL, ENGLISH OPERA, STRAND.—Two Words : Sir Hildobrand do Goy, Mr. Bartley; Rosabelle, Miss Kelly. After which, Doctor Bolus. To which was added, The Death of Captain Cook. MAILS AnatvEn-1 Dublin, t Guernsey and Jersey, 1 France. Du*-1 Waterford, 1 Sweden, 1 liawburgh, 1 Lisbon. . PRICE O THIS DAY AI Bank 5t0ck...:... . 276 3 per Cent. Red. 771 78 3 per Ceat. C0n5........ 771 4 3f per Cent .. 8814 STOCKS ELVE &CLOCK. Rank Long Ann. 24 11-16ths India 80nd5......9L5. 96i. pr. Exch. Bills, c2d....185. 19s. pr. Ditto, ...... 19s. 18s. pr. Oniniuni Cons, for Account 77iii 4 per Cents.. 97i' 5 per Cent. Navy Ann....106,i 1051 106 HIGH IVATER AT LONDOVBRIDGE TOMORROW. Morning, 48 minutes after 16. Evening, 13 minutes after 1. THE SUN. SOLENT QUli DICEItE rAt.sum AUDEAT ? LONDON, TUESDAY, AUGUST 11, 1818. greatest rapidity. Several battalions of Pr ess 4: troops are employed, and every day from th ree nt 4000 men are w or ki ng th ere . O n t he right bs o of the Rhine a new fort is to be erected on i v mountain called the Bohnaker, for the 111 pose of coveri n g t h e f or t ress o f q iren breitsl e ' . „ " ; Extensive barracks ar e to b e bui the in terior of Coblentz, to lodge the PrAtian g rrison, 110 is to be very numerous after the evacuation to France. • „ A „ VIBNNA, JULY 28.—Mr. Robert LAI.."- s rived here the 25th express from ConstantionP le on his way to London." The last accounts from Jamaica, which " I , rs , contained in a private letter, state that inform al. had been received from the Spanish Main' 3 : which it appeared th a t B RION , the insurgen t 6 neral, bad declared Cu t n a n a , Laguiray r 6erto ee Cabello, and Maracaybo, in a state o f block' Bator; and Aunt had combined their forces, O n : sisting of 25 sail, in the neighbourhood of 11°11 It was confidently said that they had mo de , $0 $ attack on Satnans, in order to obtain a 1001111, on St. Domingo, but had been repulsed. (S 36 VAR, the Insurgent General, and MottiL"' Royalist Chief, were constantly skirmishi tl6 the Carraccas, but all their movements are so r tk `; nified by each party, that reports were frectleo that each party had totally destroyed the 11 : 1 of the other. IMP f l a pe This morning we received Philadelphia ^ -11 two days later than the last arrivals. (From The Freeman's Journal of July 1 1 0 ip FROM ANITIGVA.—A Letter from a Pla nter Antigua to his Correspondent in this City , June 28, in speaking of the Navigation Act, 531 ,0 " our supply mast come through Bermud a °c expence that will be heavy, for the goods vault 50" clogged with double freight, commission/ other heavy charges." ; ri o Extract of a Letter from Valperaiso to a Gentleman ••- . delphia, dated April 29, 1818. rOP " I inclose you a list of the Spanish Scl u- ' 1 4 4, now cruising off this port Venganzs's, a very fast sailer ; Esmaralda, 3S ; So tiano, 18 ; Portrillo, 14 ; Pazula, 16 ; Fr ati ": ( ll Indus, 6 guns; the whole of which are s' manned and equipped. a t° " In consequence of a Petition presents Captain BIDDLE, of the Ontario, by the Ast eries t o and English at this place, be will not lea ve t of port until the decisive blow is struck. 5 °5 0 40 the crews, and several of the Officers, of t hc iittil rican ships have deserted, in consequence ° large bounties offered by the privateersmen' t hi veral Insurgent cruizers have been take o blockading squadron, and the crews sent ° gr it , son to be tried as pirates; the forts and hilt are in good order, and have 1000 men." NAVAL DEPOTS. W t° NORFOLK, JULY 13.—The Unite d n siA ° gt schooner Hornet, Lieut. Commandan t poi iii arrived here yesterday morning from COO' whither she had last proceeded with b e n . e° tnissioners of Government,. who ha d n i A ce i/1 gaged since their departure from tilis 9f n taking an accurate survey of the Clicsarefir ibis and its tributary waters, preparatory t° l ing to Congress 'on the most sl i p , stie ls tion for the Southern Naval Depot' sn( 0 54 fortifications as might be requisite t o 11 ,,1cr the incursions of a hostile force. We 1 " stand that the Gentlemen have, after FOr‘r , minute examination of the water s and of the Illy, completed their survey, awl Ic t l o rlf no doubt be submitted to Congress at sn co ol' of L i day of the next Session. The Boar' • stl Sivi tt missioners was composed of Generals o f t• Bernard, Col. M'Rea and Major KearneYfro° hn yr' Corps of Engineers, which have gone oO tr s c 4 napolis to Baltimore, in the United State leer „ ~e P Dispatch, Lieut. Smoot, whither -- to • 1f would immediately proceed to Washing" t • the result of the survey before the Pre side° g sli# Our accounts of this day ---- • i tocti chester Disturbances we have the sa ti- vitv Th e le e. lo b say are rather of a favourable natur ls° lance and spirit, but, at the same ti me' . are al n or e 0 moderation of the Magistrates , hav e 50° ,l, way eof g it a to iort o way for a happy result. The A have becoi - „„ ot ioP,, whom have been secured,• ins" lie and are more cautions in the n. It! 0 Id ° tl e " respecting the t o The poor men who have been de tor ar•••' 0 1 artful incitements and inflaintnate'll froo l begin to feel the miseries arising oill J e r r e` employment, and apprehension s of iaresserd vations, and are gradually. we a r e ne 0/ turning to their duty. te tir r Ot' -3 id° • We beg leave to call the pa rt ' ; our Readers to a Letter signed " sl4 t ". t l4' which they will find in Trrs Sv ;Ivrifer't°lol/°i We have often been indebted 10 t"- 6 50 e we may venture to character's- 00 of distinguished talents and learning? PeE " 00 ' C 444 te lo kid tit !, fr svi ablUi k in P 4 ir e ie i t 's R ll , l )41 1 , 11147 41 1144 ti r , n to eio t() 4111 11 ht. he, ;11) 11,1 ' ' 1 t t , it. th T ' -tti 4 I 1 4 111 utt 1 0 r~